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IlNiTED STATES ATENT FFICE- D. H. SHEAREB, OF DRAKESVILLE, IOWA.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

Specifieationforming part of Letters Patent No. 43,5'BS, dated July 1'2,1864.

To all uhomv tm/1y concern:

Be it known that I, D. H. SHEARER, of Drakesville, in the county ofDavis and State of Iowa, have invented a new and ImprovedClothes-/Iashing'Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable otherskilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which-Figure lis a side sectional view of my invention, taken in theline r x,Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a plan or top view of the same.

Similar Letters of reference indicate like This invention consists inthe employment 4 or use of two oscillating rubbers placed within asuds-box provided with a dirt-chamber, all arranged and operating ashereinafter fully set forth, whereby clothes may be washed andthoroughly cleansed very expeditiously.

A represents the suds-box, which may be of any proper dimensions,constructed with two parallel sides, a c, ends b b, slightly inclined,and a bottom composed of two inclined pieces, c c, and a horizontalplate, d, of sheet metal. Copper or zinc would be a good material forthe latter. The other partsof the box may be of wood. i This box may besupported by inclined legs c, and within the box there are secured twotransversev boards, ff, slightly inclined downward toward a point overthe center of the plate d, with a narrow space, g, between them. Theseboards f for-1n a dirtehamber, B, the space g being the communicationbetween A and B, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. v

C is a shaft placed transversely on the box A and having a ily-wheel, D,on one end of it, and a crank, E, at about its center.

F is a rubber composed of two sides, h h, of segment form, and havinguted slatsi secured at proper distances apart to their lower curvededges, said slats being iluted at their upper surfaces. This rubber F isprovided with a journal, j, at each side of it, near its upper edge,said journals having their bearings c on the upper surfaces of the sidesc a of the suds-bex A.

Gis a rubber which is fitted within the rubber F, and is constructed ina similar manner, with the exception that its slats l are fluted attheir under surfaces. The rubber G is provided with a journal, m,at eachside of it, said journals having their bearings in the bottoms ofvertical grooves a, made in the inner sides of uprights o, at each sideof the rubber F. The rubber F is operated by a pitman, H, from the crankE of the shaft C, and the rubber G is operated by a pitman, I, one endof which is connected to crank E, and the opposite end connected to anupright, J, secured in crossbars p in G. The pitman [is attached to theupright J above the plane of the journals m of G, while the pitman H ofrubber F is attached to the latter, at one end of it, below the plane ofits journalsj. By this arrangement it will be seen that when the shaft Gis rotated an oscillating movement will be communicated to the tworubbers and thelatter move in opposite directions, the clothes beingsubjected to the necessary rubbing and friction between the slats or"the two rubbers. The suds-box A is provided with a requisite quantityofsuds, and the dirt washed from the clothes settles down through thespace g be tween the boards f f into chamber B, and there remains, beingprevented from being driven or forced through the texture of theclothes, and the latter are therefore cleansed more rapidly andthoroughly than they otherwise would be.

I would remark that the rubber G may be raised or turned over in orderto adjust the clothes on the slats of F and to remove them from it, andthat a bar, I, may be secured on the bottom of A to prevent the sudsfrom splashing up at the unoccupied side of the suds-box.

Havingr thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the two oscillating rubbers F G, the dirt chamber B,arranged within the suds-box A, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

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Witnesses:

J. H. BRAKE, ALBERT CORNER..

